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I’m sure you always suspected it. I know I did.

Tucker Carlson and Neil Patel.

If you’ve ever watched Chris Cuomo on CNN, you may have wondered, How did this guy get a TV show? He can barely speak English. There are nights when Cuomo emits entire paragraphs that mean nothing at all, just pure gibberish. Cuomo went to Yale, which has famously high admissions standards. Is Cuomo a secret genius? Does he have some amazing talent that’s invisible on TV? Maybe he speaks flawless Urdu or has a deep grounding in particle physics.

Actually, it turns out he has an even more impressive qualification: His father, Mario Cuomo, was the governor of New York. If you want to get into a top American college, the most effective credential of all is to have a parent who’s a well-known Democratic politician.

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Steven Kopits of Princeton Energy Advisors wrote a few criticisms of our proposal to sell Gold Cards through a market-based program that I’ve called an immigration tariff. An immigration tariff is an attempt, based largely on Nobel Prize-winning economist Gary Becker’s idea to sell visas, to create a market-based visa that accounts for many of the most trenchant criticisms of liberalized immigration The idea is simply to create a new visa called a Gold Card without numerical quotas or caps. The Gold Card would supply permanent legal residency and work permission, but cannot be used to naturalize –like a green card lite. The government would then sell those Gold Cards for a price set with three goals in mind. Those goals are to make sure that the Gold Card is a net-fiscal windfall for the federal government, to outcompete human smugglers, and to create a more flexible immigration system that responds to the U.S. market demands.

If entrance into the United States has value, as all will admit, and if the United States is in need of more revenue, as everyone is aware, then I see no reason why visas to enter the United States ought not to be sold for whatever the market will bear.

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The horror! The horror!

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Two summers ago on a visit to Budapest, I asked the spokesman for the Hungarian government about the growing problem of migrants coming into doesn’t have a migrant problem because they don’t have welfare programs. So, he said, migrants continue their travels to other European countries that do.

What a great idea!s

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Let’s all encourage her to keep her obviously defective genes out of the gene pool.

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I am not making this up.

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“The party in my opinion, for me personally, has moved too far to the left,” said Robert Johnson, founder of the cable network Black Entertainment Television and RLJ Companies, during a Tuesday interview with CNBC’s Hadley Gamble.

A self-proclaimed Democrat and centrist, Johnson, 73, went on to say, “And for that reason, I don’t have a particular candidate [I’m supporting] in the party at this time. I think at the end of the day, if a Democrat is going to beat Trump, then that person, he or she, will have to move to the center and you can’t wait too long to do that.”

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In the court of the absurd, any fool can be a judge. That appears to be the case in France, where the Versailles Administrative Court has ruled that Islamic terrorist Salah Abdeslam has the right to a private life in prison. Abdeslam, you may recall, was captured during a March 2016 shootout with Belgium counter terrorism police. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison for the Brussels gunfight.

Yet another reason to be glad you aren’t a European.

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How very white of them.

ZMan takes in the view from 10,000 feet.

This is the nature of woke capital. The reductionist interpretation is that the people in these corporate giants are motivated by power or political ideology. They just want to help their tribe. In reality, what drives this is a culture inside these organizations around the belief they are there to serve the greater good. Apple is not a firm that makes expensive toys in China. It is a company with a mission to make the world a better place. The people are not there to profit the company, but to benefit mankind.

The conflation of private interests and the public good that inevitably must happen in a democracy, turns every company into a religious order and every powerful man into a bishop of the civic religion. As happens in all markets, the competition for what defines the public morality consolidates into one universal public morality. The entrepreneur wants to get rich, not for material reasons, but for spiritual reasons, as that becomes the path to high status. “Giving back” is the ultimate goal of wealth.

It is not just the private sphere that is subverted by the public will. The very institutions of the democracy become one with the new religion. Instead of training young people in the practical arts, education turns into indoctrination centers. Everything about our modern education system, even the private schools, is bent toward brainwashing young people into the ideology of the state. It’s why standards have collapsed. They are making believers now, not scholars.

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The “fact checkers” at Snopes.com are running to the defense of liberal Democrats again in a July 10 post headlined “Did Rep. Frederica Wilson Advocate Prosecuting People Who ‘Make Fun’ of Congress?”

The answer is yes. But David Mikkelson at Snopes insisted “context is key,” that conservative media outlets like the Washington Times and the Daily Wire skipped over how Wilson was responding to rude Facebook memes.

Snopes has gone from being reliable fact-checkers to being a reliable Voice of the Crust who will join the DemLegHump Media when necessary. Very sad.

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Time to shake the box again.

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A lot of people are very excited about moving to a four-day work week.

Can’t say I see what the fuss is about.

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That is a question that often occurs to me when I watch the Democrats’ anti-American hate-fest. (No, this post isn’t about the media’s slavering homage to Megan Rapinoe, but it could be.) The Southern border is a litmus test: do they believe that the United States has a right to exist as a sovereign nation, or don’t they?

For many Democrats, the answer evidently is No. That goes for all of the Democratic presidential contenders: I believe all of them have signed on to the notion of free medical care (along with many other welfare benefits, of course) for illegal aliens. This isn’t exactly treason–a word that is thrown around much too often these days–but it certainly amounts to selling out the interests of American citizens.

A startling example of the Democrats’ disregard of the interests of American citizens is Congresswoman Veronica Escobar, who reportedly has sent her aides to Mexico to help illegal immigrants game the asylum system by pretending that they don’t speak Spanish. Why, exactly, would an important member of our government, accountable to the citizens of the United States, do this? Last we knew, Escobar’s office had no comment.

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With the Persian Gulf uncharacteristically quiet in recent days, without any material provocation either real of staged, late on Wednesday CNN reported that five armed Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard boats unsuccessfully tried to seize a British oil tanker in the Persian Gulf. There was no independent verification of the report, but instead it was once again sourced to those who stands to gain the most from a way with Iran, namely “two US officials with direct knowledge of the incident.”

UPDATE: Royal Navy ‘fends off Iranian seizure of British oil tanker in Persian Gulf’

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Biden and his wife, Jill Biden, the former second lady, routed their book-deal earnings through an S-Corp, a pass-through entity that allowed the two to avoid a self-employment tax of 3.8%. While that might not seem like much, the Bidens’ saved $500,000 thanks to the strategy.

As I said earlier.

MSNBC’s ‘Last Word’: Donald Trump ‘Not Much Different’ Than Jeffrey Epstein  Because he just is!

Hannity Slams Liberal Media Attempts to Tie Epstein to Trump

‘Morning Joe’ Defends UK Ambassador Who Lashed Out at Trump

Trump’s Latest Victim, According to CNN: Bees

Professor denounces student’s MAGA hat: ‘Undeniable symbol of white supremacy’  Only in certain proglodyte fantasies.

‘USA Not Great For Enough Americans’: Rapinoe Slams Trump On CNN

McConnell’s Senate Challenger Likens Trump Election To 9/11, Police Association Grills Her

Behind The Trump-Bashing UK Ambassador’s Resignation

Court Dismisses Absurd Emoluments Clause Lawsuit Against Trump

ZIKA:  Climate Change Threat?

Breaching a ‘carbon threshold’ could lead to mass extinction

Reducing the future to climate: a story of climate determinism and reductionism.

Is it better to avoid washing your clothes?

Carbon-Saturated Oceans Could Unleash Mass Extinction Event  Women and minorities hardest hit, etc.

University of Minnesota: Zimbabwe Food Production Declining Because Climate Change  No, it’s because Africans.

Climate Expert Reminds People To Rely On Reputable Sources After Journo Blames Hurricanes On Global Warming

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It’s not just the number of individuals crossing our southwest border illegally that’s surging; it’s the number of families. But many of those “families” turn out not to be families at all, but frauds trying to exploit loopholes in federal immigration laws that allow families to avoid detention and deportation back to their native countries.

Ace of Spades is on the case.

And now the sinister purpose of the multiyear dehumanization campaign against all non-leftists becomes clear. Muh Private Monopoly which encourages actual physical violence against enemies of the left, and has federally-granted immunity to lawsuit for doing so.

Proglodyte ‘justice’ is as biased as proglodyte ‘news’.

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A spokesman for the Ministry of Truth, as you can tell by his first paragraph…

A one-size-fits-all internet was supposed to liberate the world. We underestimated the demand for information about how white nationalism is good and vaccines are bad.

… makes what will probably prove to be the Official Argument for censorship of the Internet.

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Forward into the future, comrades!

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Not the reaction you would expect in Blue State Minnesota.

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Perhaps re-education camps. Those are popular with the Left.

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The saga began in 2012 when the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service determined that 1,544 acres of land in Louisiana was “critical habitat” for an endangered species known as the dusky gopher frog.

As a result of this designation, the federal government was considering a ban on the development of the property, depriving the private property owners of $33.9 million.

The federal government continued to pursue this action even though the dusky gopher frog has not been seen in Louisiana in over 50 years. The frog couldn’t even survive on the property. The only way the area could support the frog is if the private property owners make major and costly changes to the property—changes they have said they have no inclination to make nor can they be forced to make.

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There is renewed hope for trade talks with China—a welcome development for the American economy. But the damage caused by the fight continues.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is using the situation as an excuse to funnel more taxpayer money to the agricultural industry. It is spending $16 billion on trade aid for farmers affected by the trade fight with China. This is on top of the $12 billion in allegedly “one-time” aid provided to farmers last year in response to trade disputes with various countries, including China.

If this wasn’t bad enough, it now appears the Department of Agriculture plans to use trade aid money to help farmers deal with non-trade-related issues.

ZMan is not optimistic.

The coalition of the ascendant loves to talk about the glorious future in which they are in complete control. They just assume that everything will be like it is today in a material sense, except they will get to divvy up the goods of the vanquished among themselves, like pirates sharing out a captured treasure. America will just be a swarthier version of what it was in the 1950’s. It is the assumption of people who have fully consumed the multicultural propaganda used to create the coalition of the ascendant.

This vision of the future is no doubt a driving force behind the race radicalism of people like Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar. It assumes things about people that are not true. The old gag about Magic Dirt Theory is a joke among dissidents, but people like Rashida Tlaib think it is real. She thinks if her people move here, displacing the heritage stock, nothing changes but the complexion. Her people will suddenly stop acting like her people and take on the habits of our people, but with more color.

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I am not making this up.

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How about that GREAT government-provided healthcare! Don’t you wish we had a system like that in the U.S.?

Democrats do.

Home Depot shoppers are boycotting store over founder’s Trump donation

ABC, NBC Hype U.K. Ambassador Bad-Mouthing Trump in ‘Bombshell’ Cables

BoycottHomeDepot Trends On Twitter As Trump Haters Pan Billionaire’s Plans To Donate To President’s Reelection

Judge Blocks Trump Rule Requiring Drug Companies to List Prices in TV Ads

It’s Unconstitutional For President Trump To Block Twitter Critics, Appeals Court Says  That’s headed to the Supremes, I think.

Democrats consider issuing new subpoenas to current and former Trump officials  They need a distraction, stat.

How A Grocery Store’s Plan To Shame Customers Into Using Reusable Bags Backfired

Ancient life awakens amid thawing ice caps and permafrost

“Planning in and for a post-growth and post-carbon economy”… Aeuhhh???

BBC Faces Legal Challenge As Viewers Raise Thousands To Tackle ‘Bias’

The wrong kind of trees: Ireland’s afforestation meets resistance

MSNBC and CNN Are Trying to Spin the Jeffrey Epstein Scandal Against Trump

Climate scientists’ pre-traumatic stress syndrome

Martin Armstrong Blasts “More Insanity From The Climate Group” Without Supporting Evidence

David Attenborough likens concern over plastic pollution to the abolition of slavery  Disposable straws have nothing to lose but their chains.

Climate craziness of the week: seriously “ducked up” science

U.S. Has Its Wettest 12 Months on Record – Again

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The couple’s earnings from the books and speaking engagements were paid through so-called S-Corporations, which the campaign described as “a common method for taxpayers who have outside sources of income to consolidate their earnings and expenses.”

One of the benefits of laundering your income through an S-corp is that you avoid Self Employent Tax (i.e. Medicare and Social Security).

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Not everybody in the blue states is part of the scofflaw brigade.

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The Memory Hole is alive and well.

Remember: IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.

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Anything that didn’t eat them first, I expect.

Using chemical analysis of pottery fragments and animal bones found at one of England’s earliest medieval villages, combined with detailed examination of a range of historical documents and accounts, the research has revealed the daily diet of peasants in the Middle Ages. The researchers were also able to look at butchery techniques, methods of food preparation and rubbish disposal at the settlement. Dr Julie Dunne and Professor Richard Evershed from the University of Bristol’s Organic Geochemistry Unit, based within the School of Chemistry, led the research, published this month in the Journal of Archaeological Science.

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Popular Science takes a break from virtue-signaling and actually does some science for a change.

High-fructose corn syrup has been a scapegoat for American obesity for the past decade and a half, so you might be surprised to learn that sugar and honey both have more fructose than high-fructose corn syrup.

Let’s break down the numbers here. Despite its misleading name, the most commonly used form of HFCS only has 42 percent fructose in comparison to table sugar’s 50 percent. Honey, the beloved natural sweetener, has 49 percent. Standard corn syrup doesn’t have any fructose because it’s 100 percent glucose, which explains how HFCS got its name: it was a kind of corn syrup with more fructose than normal.

This is true for every form of natural sugar you see advertised on organic food because sucrose, the molecule you know as sugar, is made up of one fructose molecule and one glucose molecule. Honey is a bit different, as its fructose and glucose molecules aren’t bound together, but instead are free-floating—much more like HFCS.

“People say you should use honey, but what’s interesting about honey is that because the sucrose is split apart [into glucose and fructose], you can fit a lot more of those molecules into a tablespoon,” says Andrea Giancoli, a registered dietician and consulting expert on dietary policy. “A tablespoon of honey has more calories than a tablespoon of table sugar.”

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No! No! That will only encourage them!

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NBC was so desperate to smear Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell as a racist, that they searched his family ancestry for slave owners to make some sort of “point” as to why he didn’t support reparations. If that makes no sense to you, you’re not alone.

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Actually, no, it couldn’t. The courts will decide, as they always do, and there is no ‘crisis’ involved.

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Tucker Carlson described the fact that politicians — particularly Democrats — manage to get their children into elite Ivy League schools at an astonishingly disproportionate rate compared to the general public as “the real college scandal.”

The Fox News host included several examples during a segment on Monday night’s edition of “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” including the Cuomo, Gore, Clinton, and Obama families, and juxtaposed the legality of that with Hollywood figures and others currently in legal trouble for trying to bribe their kids’ way into some of the same schools.

Seriously – is anybody surprised by this?

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U.S. Air Force Four-Star General George Babbitt played with The Ventures when they first began! It’s fun to hear “Walk, Don’t Run” and watch him as he revels in the opportunity to play with them 38 years later.

The video is the coolest thing you will see this year.

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Democratic Rep. Stacey Plaskett is unlikely to return thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from Jeffrey Epstein, the billionaire sex offender who was arrested Saturday on charges that he engaged in sex trafficking of underage girls.

“I’m pretty sure she’s not,” Plaskett’s spokesman, Mike McQueery, told CNBC when asked whether the Virgin Islands delegate would return the contribution to Epstein.

Virtue-signaling only goes so far, after all.

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The Navy’s top officer warned against using popular at-home ancestry DNA test kits last week, saying scientific advancements are making biological weapons more tailorable.

Biological weapons that can target specific groups or individuals vulnerable to pathogens or other diseases are a growing national security concern, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson said during a July 3 speech on nuclear deterrence in Washington, DC.

Jake Tapper And TIME Attack Ben Garrison After Cartoonist Invited To White House  Uh-oh; Trump cooties.

Colbert Cartoon: Trump the ‘Grand Wizard’ of Conservatives  And Colbert is the Bozo the Clown of ‘progressives’.

GMA Bashes Trump for ‘Locking Up’ Migrant Toddlers In ‘Basically Jail’  Well, technically they’re criminals.

MSNBC’s Eddie Glaude Rants: ‘America Traffics in Cruelty’

‘Impeach Trump’ Billionaire Steyer May Run for President After All  He’s welcome to squander his money any way he chooses.

US Soccer Fans Shout ‘F**k Trump’ And ‘Equal Pay’ After World Cup Win

Okay, Sure: Brian Stelter Throws Hissy Fit Trump Would Bash MSNBC, NBC  Yeah, that surprised me too.

Chuck Todd Worries That ‘Damage Is Done’ Regarding Citizenship Question

Democrats Claim Trump’s Wall Is Ineffective And Immoral–Here’s Why They’re Wrong

CNN Calls for the Elimination of the US Nuclear Arsenal, Because Climate Change

Big Government Is Not the Answer to Climate Change

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #366

Educating kids to debate alarming climate claims

Ocasio-Cortez Blames Republicans For DC Flooding

‘Doc Brown’ Wants Climate Change in Back to the Future Sequel  Of course he does.

Trump Administration Touts Record On The Environment  Why not? It’s not as if anyone will believe them.

We can plant trees to save the planet. But it’s harder than it sounds.

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Washington Post contributing columnist Steven Petrow used to write a regular column for the Style section called “Civilities” (even as he supported manner-shredders like Dan Savage) to explain the LGBTQ Revolution in all of its linguistic permutations. On Saturday, that exercise returned in a book review touting “A necessary guide to gender inclusivity.”

Have you noticed that its always a professor of some sort who comes up with this crap?

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Instead of one big nuclear reactor, Reyes says his company will string together a series of up to 12 much smaller reactors. They would be built in a factory and transported by truck to a site that would be prepared at the same time.